Bas van Ravensteijn

ERC Proof of Concept Grants for Bas van Ravensteijn and Markus Weingarth Utrecht University researchers Bas van Ravensteijn and Markus Weingarth have each been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant of €150.000 to further enhance antibiotics and nanomedice

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Over €20 million to turn frontier science into practical solutions The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the first group of researchers to be awarded ERC Proof of Concept Grants in 2025. In this initial round of the 2025 competition, 150 projects wi...

I’m honored to receive a Proof of Concept Grant from @erc.europa.eu for our POLYMORPH project!

This is a great boost to our research on morphology-controlled polymer nanocarriers to deliver RNA & DNA therapies beyond the liver!

Excited for what’s ahead!

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Finally🎉! I made the long-overdue move from X to Bluesky.

📣Job alert! We are hiring a #PhD researcher (#ERC funded ) to study the formation of polymeric gene delivery vehicles. Great combination of phys./polym. chemistry, pharmaceutics & scattering
@UUPharmaceutics, @UUUIPS.

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Advanced Functional Polymers for Medicine 2024 The purpose of the AFPM conference is to strengthen the interactions within the community of chemists, material engineers, physicists, biologists and clinicians.

Join us in Utrecht for the AFPM 2024 (5 - 7 June)!

Great opportunity to learn about all the new stuff involving #polymers for drug delivery & medicine.

Check our website for the speaker line-up & registration:

Christmas came a little early in our lab @UUPharmaceutics, @UUUIPS! Brand new @LeicaMicro confocal set-up dedicated for Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy! Made possible by @ERC_Research.
Looking forward to start my #ERCStG project in 2024 & take this microscope for a spin!

Very happy to see our latest review on PISA for drug delivery () highlighted on the cover of @JPolymSci!
Many credits to @EHochreiner for leading the writing process & designing the cover! @UUPharmaceutics @UUUIPS @UUBeta

Very happy to see this Review on the current status & future of PISA for drug delivery published in the @JPolymSci! Many congrats to @EHochreiner for this beautiful and inspiring (first!) paper. @UUPharmaceutics, @UUUIPS, @UUBeta

Thanks @UUUIPS. Looking forward to the next 5 years!

ERC Starting Grant for seven Utrecht-based researchers The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding no fewer than seven ERC Starting Grants of €1.5 million each to Utrecht-based researchers.

Excited & grateful to receive a #ERCStG from @ERC_Research! We will develop new tools to prepare & analyze polymeric gene delivery vehicles in a quest to optimize their therapeutic potential. Keep an eye out for exciting updates! @UUBeta @UUPharmaceutics

Nice work by @EHebels in @ACS_Langmuir! Check out this paper if you ever wondered how to effectively cross-link your micelles!

Great job opportunity in a stimulating research environment! If you are a polymer/organic chemist and want to contribute to the next generation of Pharmaceutics, check out the vacancy!

Happy to be at NWO Physics today! Looking forward to a lot of great talks and our focus session on charged soft matter organized together with @SpruijtLab and @SLindhoud!

On my way to Brno to visit our colleagues at CEITEC Brno University of Technology @CEITEC_Brno. Looking forward to present the latest work of @EHochreiner and brainstorm about future collaborations. Thanks to Lucy Vojtová for the invitation! @UUPharmaceutics.

Ever wondered if polymer architecture plays a role in the formation of polyion complex micelles? Check out our latest work in @WileyPolymers #Macromolecular #Chemistry & #Physics. Congratulations to all authors! @RodriMagana, @Voets_lab, @IKVoets.

Very happy to see our paper 'Switchable Electrostatically Templated Polymerization' () highlighted on the cover of @angew_chem! Many thanks to the @ICMStue Animation Studio for the stunning design! @Voets_lab @IKVoets @UUPharmaceutics. #OnTheCover

Really enjoyed the 84th Prague Meeting on Macromolecules where I presented our results on Switchable Templated Polymerizations. Very interesting science, great atmosphere and a beautiful city! Thanks to @IMC_Prague for hosting and Daniel Horák + his team for organizing!

On my way to Prague for the "Frontiers in Polymer Colloids" conference ()! Looking forward to share our latest results! (in real life!) @Voets_lab @UUPharmaceutics

Very happy to see this work published in @angew_chem!

Honored to be in the list of 2021 @RSC_MolEng outstanding peer reviewers! Many thanks for the recognition @RoySocChem. #PeerReview

Just accepted by @angew_chem: Switchable Electrostatically Templated Polymerizations.
Many thanks to Cindy Li, Junyou Wang, Martien Cohen Stuart, @IKVoets, @Voets_lab, @RodriMagana and @FabiSobotta for the great collaboration! @MSCActions @NWO_Science
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We have updated our website! Check out everything that is happening on research and educational level in our group: .
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It was great to get an overview of the scientific endeavors of our @UUUIPS! Interesting lecture by my fellow tenure tracker @jong_olivier of @UUPharmaceutics and of course congratulations to the poster winning @EHochreiner! #ProudSupervisor!

Congratulations @CristinaCasadi1! Well-deserved!!

I am very happy to share that I’ve been recognized as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2021 Outstanding Reviewers. Explore the full list at . Thanks @RSC_MolEng & @RoySocChem! #RSCPeerReview

Tomorrow I will present our work (@Voets_lab, @RodriMagana,Chendan Li, @MSCActions) on polymerization-induced assembly of polymers & colloids @#NWOCHAINS2021. Great session on self-assembly across length scales (10:20-11:35) organized by Wouter Roos, Willem Kegel & @DanielaJKraft

Hot from the press! Check out this Perspective in an inspiring new issue of @Matter_CP with @Voets_lab, @IKVoets. We highlight the beautiful work of the @Macfarlane_RJ group on macroscopic objects from self-assembling nanoparticles.

Back @UtrechtUni, @UUBeta! Now as an assistant professor @UUPharmaceutics! Looking forward to all the great science in the upcoming years!

Hot from the press @MacroJrnls_ACS! Read about how we used SANS, DLS, and rheology to investigate how polymer architecture impacts thermorheological behavior. Credits to @raghidabz, @theHelgesonLab , @professor_meh and @HawkerNation.

Of course I got a lot of help along the way! Many thanks to all the labs that I had the privilege of working in during the last decade: @Voets_lab, @TNO, @theHelgesonLab, @HawkerNation, & Van 't Hoff lab of physical & colloid chemistry @UUBeta. Your support is highly appreciated!